home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!jabaru.cec.edu.au!csource!gateway
- From: John.Daly@f301.n670.z3.fidonet.org (John Daly)
- Newsgroups: aus.conserve
- Subject: Saving Beached WHALES
- Message-ID: <725483423.AA06106@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:48:00
- Sender: gateway@csource.oz.au
- Lines: 29
-
- TO: yar@cluster.cs.su.oz
- yy > >>Recently several whales beached themselves and died along the
- yy > Tasmanian
- yy > >>coastline.My brother came up with a suggestion for deflecting them
- yy > from
- yy > >>moving into shallow water.We are unsure of if the method will work
-
- I've worked with marine echo sounding equipment for several years.
- They use the same sonar principle as do whales.
-
- One phenomenon which completely reflects back sound waves is bubbles
- under water. Sometimes a boats echo sounder is disabled by the
- presence of foam and bubbles under the boat, preventing the sound
- waves from penetrating through.
-
- I think the turbulence near beaches causes a whales sonar to be
- effectively fogged out, so that they end up effectively lost, and
- blindly follow the leader.
-
- One possible way to prevent them even approaching beach areas would
- be to lay a loεg pipe underwater, parallel with the shore, and pump
- air under high pressure through holes in the pipe, causing a wall of
- bubbles which would appear to the whales as if it were a real wall.
-
- It's worth testing somewhere to see if it works. The pump need only
- be activated if whales are known to be in the area.
-
- Regards John Daly
- * Origin: Tassie DataBank, 4 Lines, D'bridge Tasmania, 6.5 Gigs (3:670/301)
-